Doll&#39;s head and eyes therefor



S. MARCUS. DOLLS HEAD AND EYES THEREFOR.

APPLICATION FILED MAG/19,1920.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

' UNETEE STATES earner SAMUEL MARCUS, OF, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO F. & M. NOVELTY CO. INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A'GORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

DOLLS HEAD AND EYES THEREFOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed May 19, 1920. Serial No. 382,569.

i To all 10 ham. it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL MARCUS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Dolls Heads and Eyes Therefor, of which the following is a specification.

The invention pertains to improvements in the manufacture of heads and artificial eyes for dolls, and the invention consists in the novel features hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

One object of my invention is to provide suitable means whereby glass eyes may be properly supported and allowed their rocking movement within the heads of dolls, and another object of the invention is to furnish suitable means whereby the eye-sets may be conveniently secured by shellac or the like to the inner surface of the forhead of a dolls head in suitable relation to the eye-sockets.

It has been found difficult to properly support glass eyes within the head of a doll in such manner as to permit the rolling action of the eyes in accordance with thepair or eye-set within the head of a doll in.

such manner that the eyes may have a rocking'motion and also maintain their proper relation to the eye-sockets in the head of a doll.

The invention and satisfactory means for carrying the same into effect will be fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a vertical section through the face of a doll and eye mechanism embodying the essential features of my invention, the section through the eye mechanism being vertically through the bridge or rod connecting the eyes of a pair of eyes;

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of an eye-set embodying my invention;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same;

Fig. 4 is a central vertical section through one of the eyes and its connected devices;

Fig. 5 is a top View, partly broken away, of the same;

Fig. 6 is a detached central section through a thimble I apply to the neck of the eye as means for holding the eye and securing the same to the bridge-piece;

Fig. 7 is an inner end view of the same;

Fig. 8 is a sectional View of the same, taken at right angles to the section of Fig. 6;

Fig. 9. is a modified construction showing the two hangers for the eyes as connected together, and

Fig. .10 is a side elevation, partly broken away and partly in section, of one of the eyes.

In the drawings, 15 indicates the face portion of the head of a doll, and 16, 17, respectively, denote the right eye and left eye for the doll. The eyes 16, 17 are of substantially corresponding construction and the upper ends of said arms, as shown. The

upper ends of the arms 21 are preferably formed with openings 24E through which the shellac 23 may pass and thereby aid in anchoring the arms 21 upon the seat 22. The seat 22 constitutes the only novel feature, of the head ofthe doll, and this feature being located at the middle of the inner surface of the forehead of the doll, is one of importance in enabling a workman to properly position the eye-set with relation to the usual eye-sockets to be found in dolls heads. The seat 22 compels the hanger bars 21 to take a downwardly and inwardly inclined position, and said hangers may be independently bent, when necessary, to adapt the eyes suspended by them to irregularities found in and adjacent to the eye-sockets of a dolls head.

The eyes 16, 17 are alike. and each con sists of a globular shell, preferably of glass, bearing at the front thereof a representation of thcairis of the eye, and ,at the rear side thereof neck 25, which I utilize as an my portant feature in the mounting of the eyes on the bridge-piece 18. The eye-shell is hollow, as shown in Figs. 1 and 10, and is intogrally formed with the neck 25, and said shell being of glass is smooth and has a bright polished surface and is of a more or less fragile nature. The fact that the eyeshell is hollow and of glass and has a polished surface necessitates the provision of special means for connecting the same with the bridge-piece and for suspending the eyes against the eye-sockets of the dolls head, and in these respects my inventlon involves metallic thimbles 26 for engaging the necks 25 and special stirrups 27 formed at the lower ends of the hanger arms or bars 21 for engaging the globular portions of the eyes and suspending said eyes in a manner permitting them, without losing their position, to have a rocking or rolling movement.

The thimbles 26 for a pair of eyes are alike in construction and eaeh thimble 26 constitutes a hollow metallic cap having a closed outer end 26 and flaring sides 29 adapi teld to fit upon the joutwardly tapering neck 25, and preferably each thimble 26 has slit spring fingers 30 which may be inserted within the neck as shown in Fig. 4E, and

aid in anchoring the thimble upon the neck of the eye, shellac or the like 31 being em ployed to fasten the thimble upon the neck 35. Theshellac 31 may be placed within the neck 25 or within the thimble 26 as a preliminary step and the thimble then applied to the neck 25, the spring fingers 30 being pressed together at their outer ends and pushed into said neck and therein being allowed to spread. After the shellac 31 has hardened it will be found that it will securely fasten thethimble upon the neck 25 in a manner preventing the rotation of said thimble on or the withdrawal of the same m the neck. The sides of the outer porons of the thimble 26 are formed with alined apertures 32 to receive the end of the bridge-piece or rod 18, and the outer closed end 28 of the thimble 26 is formed with a threaded aperture 33 to receive a binding screw 34 adapted to engage the bridge-piece 18 and bind the eye in position on said bridge-piece. Each eye may be adjusted along the bridge-piece to suit the spacing of the eye-sockets of the dolls head, and when adjusted the eyes may be rigidly secured to the bridgepiece by the tightening of the screws 34. The thimbles 26 afford reliable and convenient means, in cooperation with the necks 25 of the eyes, for securing the eyes upon the bridge-piece and permitting of the adjustment of the eyes on said bridge-piece, such adjustment of the eyes being the movement of the eyes either toward or from each other and the movement of the eyes angularly on said bridgepiece, and said eyes being finally secured in their adjusted positions with relation to each other and to the head of the doll by means of the screws 84.

The rod 19 is rigidly secured to the bridgepiece 18 and the weight 20 is rigid with the lower end of said rod, and the purpose of the said rod and weight is, as usual, to effect a rolling or rocking movement of the eyes 16, 17 during the movement of the doll to a reclining position or from said reclining position to an upright position.

The hanger-arms or bars 21 are preferably of sheet metal, and the novelty in said arms or bars resides in the formation at the lower ends thereof of the stirrups 27 to receive the eyes 16, 17 and support the same against the eye-sockets of the dolls head. The metal of the arms or bars 21, at the lower ends thereof, is cut out to form large openings and spread laterally to form flat band stirrups 27 which are less in diameter than the diameter of the eyeshells and afford smooth surfaces engaging the smooth globular surfaces of said shells. The stirrups 27 are deflected or dished rearwardly so as to conform as nearly as may be to the globular formation of the eye-shells. The eyes are inserted into the stirrups 27 from the front thereof, the stems 25 and thimbles 26 passing through said stirrups and the eyes being arrested from the fact that the stirrups are not sufficient in diameter to permit the eyes to pass entirely through them, the eyes becoming arrested in said stirrups when in about the position shown in Fig. 1. The stirrups 27 loop around and engage the eyes at the rear of the vertical center line thereof, but to the front of the thimbles 26 so that said stirrups' directly engage the smooth surfaces of the eye-shells and afford a bearing for the same. The hanger arms 21, together with the stir rups 27 keep the eyes properly against the eye-sockets of the dolls head, and the surfaces of said stirrups engaging the eyes permit the eyes, without undue friction, to per form a rolling action under the influence of the weight 20 acting through the bridgepiece l8 on the thimbles 26 and necks The smooth surfaces. of the eyes and the smooth inner surfaces of the stirrups 27 pcrmit the eyes to have a rolling action without losing their relation to the stirrups or to the eye-sockets. The eyes are hung within the stirrups 27 and supported at their front portions in the e'yesockets of the dolls head. The manner of supporting the eyes by means of the stirrups 27 is important in cz'u'rying out the best form of my invention. It is to be noticed that the eye-shells are not cut or otherwise treated to adapt them to the stirrups 27, and also that the necks 25 of the eye-shells are utilized to cooperate with the thimbles 26 in receiving the bridge piece 18 by which the eyes of a pair of eyes are connected in a manner permitting them to be independently adjusted.

Fig. 9 illustrates a modification in that the two hanger arms, which I therein number 40, are connected together by a pivot 41. The arms 40 correspond with the aforesaid arms 21 and have at their lower ends stirrups 42 corresponding with the stirrups 27 of Figs. 1, 2 and 3.

What I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. An eye-set for dolls and the like comprising a pair of globular eye-shells bearing at the front thereof a representation of the iris and having rearwardly extending integral necks, thimbles fitting over said necks and having spring fingers entering said necks, means securing the thimbles on said necks, a bridge connecting said thimbles, means for efiecting a rolling action of the eyes on the movement of the doll and hangers secured within the head of the doll and having stirrups engaging the surfaces of the eye-shells and permitting of the movement of the same therein.

2. An eye-set for dolls and the like comprising a pair of globular eyeshells bearing a representation of the iris at the front thereof,'mea ns connecting said eye-shells to form a pair of eyes, means for effecting a rolling action of the eyes on the movement of the doll, and hangers having open stirrups encompassing the globular portion of the eye-shells and freely supporting the eyes within the head of the doll.

3. In combination,a dolls head having on the inner surface of the forehead thereof a downwardly and inwardl inclined seat, a pair ofglobular smooth surfaced eyes, hangers adapted to be secured to said seat and having open stirrups freely encompassing arid affording bearings for said eyes, and

means for effecting a rolling action of the eyes on the movement of the doll.

4. An eye set for dolls and the like comprising a pair of globular eye-shells, means for affecting a rolling acti'on of the eyes on the movement of the doll, and open stirrups adapted to be secured within the head of the doll and .freely receiving and encompassing the globular portion of said eyes and affording bearings for the same.

5. An eye-set for dolls and the like comprising a pair of globular eye-shells, means for effecting a rolling action of the eyes on the movement of the doll, and open stirrups adapted to be secured within the head of the doll and freely receiving and encompassing the globular portion of said eyes and affording bearings for the same, said stirrups being rearwardly dished to receive and retain the eyes while permitting of their free rolling action.

6. n eye-set for dolls and the like comprising a pair of globular eye-shells bearing arepresentation of the iris at the front thereof, hangers having openings at their upper ends and adapted to be secured by shellac or the like to the inner forehead of the dolls head and having at their lower ends open stirrups encompassing the globular portions of the eyes at the rear of the center thereof and affording hearings in which the eyes may have free motion, and means for effecting a rolling action of the eyes on the movement of the doll.

7; An eye-set for dolls and the like comprising a pair of globular glass eye-shells bearing a representation of the iris at the front thereof, means connecting said eye shells at the rear thereof, means for effecting a rolling action of the eyes on the movement of the doll, and hangers having open stirrups supporting and encompassing said eye-shells at the globular portion thereof and affording free bearings within which said eye-shells may have a rocking action.

8. An eye-set for dolls and the like com-Q prising a pair of globular glass eyeeshells bearing a representation of the iris at the front thereof, means connecting said eye shells at the rear thereof, means for effecting a rolling action of the eyes on the movement of the doll, and hangers having open stirrups supporting and encompassing said eye-shells at the globular portion thereof and affording free bearings within which said eye-shells may have a rocking action, said stirrups being dished rearwardly to form broad bearing surfaces for the eye-shells.

9. An eye-set for dolls and the like comprising a pair of globular glass eye-shells bearing a representation of the iris at the front thereof and having rearwardly extending integral neck portions, means connecting the neck-portions of said eyes to form a palr of eyes, supportingmeans for the eyes comprising open stirrups freely re-.

ceiving the globular portions of the eyes and forming bearings engaging the smooth surfaces thereof, and means for eflecting the rolling action of the eyes in said hearings on the movement of the doll. Signed 'at New York City, in the county of New York and State of New. York, this 17th day of May, A. D. 1920.

SAMUEL MARCUS. 

